The Irish standard., 1887-07-02
KERRY.


brigade resumed active service in the
neighborhood of Listowel, at the in
stance of Mr.. George Sandes, high
sheriff. It was expected that there
would be more evictions than two car
ried out, but owing to the time taken
in efecting those it was impossible for
them to undertake another, as they
would not have finished before the le-
gal hour, 4 o'clock. There we're about
forty policemen, under Mr.. Hickie. D.
L., Listowel, and four bailiffs engaged
in the work. He holds lease of
twenty one years from Mr.. Stephen Ed
ward Coils, which would have expired
next March. 1t took a long time for
the bailjffs to clear the house, and as
they left the place the large crowd OF
people assembled loudly cheered for the
plan, O'Brien and Parnell. The evict.
ing party then visited Mrs. O'Sullivan's
house, and tsput her OUT Were it not
for the money her husband and daugh-
ter, who are both in America, have sent
her hitherto, she would have long since
been evicted. She has large family,
and no hope for the future except the
pros pect of becoming an inmate Of the
Listowel workhouse.
KILDARE.
On Monday evening, May 80, a rather
serious military riot occurred at New
bridge in connection with the perform
ance of a travelling boxing saloon,
owned by a German by the name Of
professor Louis.'' The Professor
erects in the open air an apparatus by
which ten or twelve persons can play at
a comfortable kind of hurdy- gurdy,
and also an enclosed saloon in which
hlgh-spirited youths have an oppor-
tunity of cultivating the manly art for
a mere bagatelle. On the arrival Of
Head Constable Mcdonald, and all his
available men, it was found that some
twenty Scotch rifles and artillerYmen-
about equally dlvided-had converted
what had commenced as mere spar
ring match into tooth-and-n melee.
They were nearly all down and fighting
on their sides and faces, with hands,
feet, teeth and spurs, while crowd Of
civilians looked on without interfering.
The head constable having put out the
lights seLt for assistance to the mill
tary barracks, and with the aid of the
provosts and picquets had the saloon
quickly cleared. The pugilists, how
ever, having taken refuge in some of
the adjacent houses, issued out at a la
ter hour only to renew the combat, and
at about IL o'clock the orderly officer Of
the night had ten of them arrested on
the Moor6eld road.
KILKENNY.
If one may judge from the bundle of
processes Of ejectment and civil bills
for rent with which the walls of the
court house here were decorated re
Gently, at the suit of Viscount Clifden.
that disinterested absentee and mu,h-
belauded, newly-come-out of age aristo-
crat, is preparing for campaign
against his unfortunate tenants on a
large scale< both on his Rover and
Graigue properties. There is no doubt
but his agent at Gowran is taking ad-
vantage of the promised Coercion bill,
by which he hopes either to squeeze
blood out of a turnip or give Clifden's
unfortunate tenants Lord Salisbury's 8
other lternative-namely, ''qnit. {"
But perhaps this gentleman of many
promises but of few ful6lments may
find that the Jubilee Coercion bill won't
be the all-powerful lever by which he
expects to root out the people and lay
waste great portion Of Clifden's es-
tate. Mr.. Maude is painfully impressed
with the rights of property, but in
stances coulc be given where he snivel-
ingly ignores it's duties, though they
have been prominently brought under
his notice. Easy means might be best.
LONGFORD.
The eviction campaign on Mr.. Gu
sacks property in this county has been
resumed by large force of police. The
scene of the proceedings was the par
ish of Moydow. The first tenant Wis.
tied was widow named Mary Court
ney, in the townland of Clonscott. The
poor woman, who is old and feeble,
gave up peaceable possession and was
readmjtted as caretaker. The farm
which she held was surrounded
with the vacant and previously farms
of the landlord, and as he never makes
up fence the bullocks easily break in
and eat down the tenants little bits of
tillaqe and meadow, and The latter are
afraid to say word owing to the ty-
ranny on the estate. A tenant named
George Murphy, who is Protestant,
was next turned out. Two tenants
named keenan, and McGrath, who live
near the village of Tashenny, were also
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